Words matter. These are the best Close-Up Quotes from famous people such as Zoe Kazan, Eve Best, David Duchovny, Emmanuel Lubezki, Giada De Laurentiis, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can work a lot faster when I’m writing a screenplay than when I’m writing a play because, if I’m having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there’s no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do.
I don’t like, and I’ve never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you’re in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.
I don’t mind close-ups, I like them, but they’re kind of forceful – you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There’s less mystery.
When you’re shooting with long lenses, even if you’re shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.
Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It’s different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.
‘Play It Again Sam’s opening shot is the same as ‘Purple Rose’s final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I’ve certainly felt that in my life. I’ve been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: ‘Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards… Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines… 37-yard field goal.’
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We’d start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I’d be bending my knees so I’d be shorter.
I watch my wife knitting, and it’s like watching close-up magic to me.
My close-up was magnificent!
The great part of appearing on game shows is that when you answer a question the camera takes a close-up of you every time. You get more close-ups than in a movie, and that’s terrific for audience identification. The people have to see you to like you.
Rod’s always opening doors for me, but I usually tell him to walk through first. Otherwise, if we’re at a restaurant and I’m in front, the paparazzi end up getting a big giant close-up of me, and then he’s trailing behind, looking like my little child!
Actors’ performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director – whether it’s in slow motion or whether it’s quick cut – or… the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you’re wearing or the makeup.
I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn’t use it.
Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
Working in film tends to isolate actors – it’s your close-up; it’s all about you.
I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
Planetary missions are great, but they’re usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.
For a movie actor, the biggest challenge on TV is the number of close-up shots.
Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?
Sometimes you’re watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you’re like, ‘God, they’re terrible. They’re not doing anything.’ And then you see the close-up, and it’s so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
Sometimes, I remember, for action continuity or to get all warmed up for an action scene before giving a close-up or saying a dialogue, I would do push-ups. I didn’t know any other way to get my body mechanism going.
